Verbatim
was kind enough to send over two 32GB USB drives. I did a fair amount of testing with them to see if they were fast enough for a variety of uses including gaming. First I did some large file testing and transferring from an external USB SATA drive through the computer to the USB drives and they were amazingly fast. Gigabytes of data flew in mere minutes onto the USB drives.
The next test was to transfer a stack of smaller files and then some mixed file sizes. Amazingly there was no slow down whatsoever. These are truly what USB 2.0 was meant to be. But life isn’t all about transferring files, so I did some further tests including using the data that I had transferred to the USB drives.
Since I had already moved some large video files and some music I thought it would be a good idea to test them out on the Xbox 360 to watch videos and listen to some music. Without a doubt these were the fastest USB drives I had ever seen. I’m not exactly sure what Verbatim did but the 32GB Swivel holds true to the stated Write Speed of 8MB/Sec and Read Speed of 11MB/Sec. The USB Executive 32GB is rated at Write Speed: 12MB/Sec and Read Speed: 30MB/Sec and I wouldn’t doubt that speeds very near these can be attained. There was never a moment where the music or the video skipped, lagged or otherwise had a problem on playback. With some other USB storage devices I’ve noticed lag and audio desynch but not with these speedy pocket-sized storage vaults.
